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Anyone else having trouble using youtube-dl since earlier today?
posted ago by OtherwiseSafe +10 / -0

I get Error: <vkey for the video> YouTube said: Unable to extract video data

Happens with any video I try using

youtube-dl -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<Whatever The Vkey is>

I get Error: <vkey for the video> YouTube said: Unable to extract video data Happens with any video I try using youtube-dl -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<Whatever The Vkey is>
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– DontTreadOnPede 2 points ago +2 / -0

I just hit that issue. In Ubuntu Linux I did the following to update to latest and now it works again:

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
hash -r

Reference: https://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/install-use-youtube-dl-ubuntu/

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– OtherwiseSafe [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

thanks so much

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– Jlin 1 point ago +2 / -1

I was. I am wondering if they have adjusted things to stop people from using it. I should check, is it still not working?

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– OtherwiseSafe [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

lol you got a downvote ... musta been Susan

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– Jlin 1 point ago +1 / -0

hahaha!

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